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Show NEWS foraCHANGE VOICE OF THE SALT LAKE CITY GAY COMMUNITY NOVEMBER 1977 DISTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT THE WESTERN STATES t was a rockin good time as Salt Lake City opened its doors and let the good times roll for the Day of Days. The Sun had a show in their new Theatre of the Sun with Bobbie Callicoate and with Tiffany Dawn hosting October 29th. The Comeback had their party the following night and Whew! Parties abounded and this was one to remember. THE OPEN DOOR devotes a pictorial salute to Our Day with pictures throughout the paper. See if you can find yourself. Charles Pierce, the greatest living impressionist in the world today, has agreed to open the new Theatre of the Sun, the Open Door learned today. Mr. Pierce, fresh from triumphant stage engagements in Los Angeles and New York, is bringing his troop to Salt Lake for his first time ever engagement in the Rocky Mountain area. The Studio One Backlot, where Mr. Pierte recently performed was a sold out smash for the entire engagement. His'devastating comedy routines on major stars places him comic. The humor ranges from pure also, in the category of a first-rat- e to racing corn-- -" Barbara Striesand, currently starring in A Star is Boring a effrontery? labotomy, or is it a sophisication , 4 pre-front- post-Backl- al Charles Pierce over the years has accepted identification as a "male actress" but watching him work one rejects that simplistic title. Pierce is, fundamentally, ' an actor and impressionist in that he portrays females, mostly as finely drawn impressions of familiar stage personalities, does not make his quick automatically female in perspective and his numbers (some with music) not otherwise associated with specific performances have a zest and flamboyance that are and delightful. wholly his own t His shows, two different ones each night, include not only Pierce's classic impressions of Bette Davis, Mae West, Joan Crawford, Julie London, Gloria Swanson, Talullah Bankhead and others they also are full of his puppets, those limp-le- g Raggedy Ann characters (he places his own face where the puppets head should be) that many years ago helped establish his worldwide reputation. And Pierce is also using slides behind his act, at one point to absorb the time needed for a one-line- rs . ot costume change and at another to provide shots of himself entangled with swimming pool slides and sharks while the soundtract plays the old chestnut, "By A Waterfall. material and often Pierce uses with' disarmingly high humor and style. He is a great impressionist, not an imitator despite his frequent use of familiar lines from films. He is certainly fully as visual an act as he is audio and on such routines as his d dialog he manages to portray both screen stars, alternating lines and actions if he used more music he would be, n indeed, a opera. Pierce has chosen perhaps the most difficult sort of life possible for an acting talent. Deriving his impressions from the film he is dealing with, the most intimate of media. His audiences know exactly what Davis looks like e (weve seen her at frequently camera range for 40 years) and how she (cont. page 9) quick side-stag- e pre-record- ed lip-sync- hs Davis-Crawfor- one-ma- ultra-clos- |